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tended, by the childhood I have suffered, by our meeting in this dreary
house at midnight, by the cry wrung from me in the anguish of my heart,
O father, turn to me and seek a refuge in my love before it is too late !'
may have arrested them.—DICKENS.
Captain Cuttle, though no sluggard, did not turn so early on the
morning after he had seen Sol Gills, through the shopwmdow, writing
in the parlour, with the Midshipman upon the counter, and Rob the
Grinder making up his bed below it, but that the clocks struck six as he
raised himself on his elbow, and took a survey of his little chamber.—
DICKENS.
A perpetual consequent warfare of her spirit and the nature subject
to the thousand sensational hypocrisies invoked for concealment of its
reviled brutish baseness, held the woman suspended from her emotions.
—MEREDITH.
Yesterday, before Dudley Sowerby's visit, Nataly would have been
stirred where the tears which we shed for happiness or repress at a flattery
dwell when seeing her friend Mrs. John Cormyn enter .. .—MEREDITH.
' It takes', it is said that Sir Robert Peel observed, ' three generations
to make a gentleman'.—BAGEHOT.
Behind, round the windows of the lower story, clusters of clematis, like
large purple sponges, blossomed, miraculously fed through their thin, dry
stalks.—E. F. BENSON.
It is a striking exhibition of the power which the groups, hostile in
different degrees to a democratic republic, have of Parliamentary combina-
tion.—Spectator.
Sir,—With reference to the custom among some auctioneers and
surveyors of receiving secret commissions, which was recently brought
to light in a case before the Lord Chief Justice and Justices Kennedy
and Ridley (King's Bench Division), when the L. C J. in giving judgment
for the defendants said:—Unfortunately in commercial circles, in which
prominent men played a part, extraordinary mistakes occurred. But
a principal who employed an agent to do work for him employed him
upon terms that the agent was not liable to get secret commissions. The
sooner secret commissions were not approved by an honourable profession,
the better it would be for commerce in all its branches. I desire to take
this opportunity ...—Times.
In the course of a conversation with a representative of the Gaulois^
Captain Klado, after repeating his views on the necessity for Russia to
secure the command of the sea which have already appeared in the
Times) replied as follows to a question as to whether, after the new
squadron in the course of formation at Libau has reinforced Admiral
Rozhdestvensky's fleet, the Russian and Japanese naval forces will be
evenly balanced: [here follows reply]—Times.